Benefits to Alaska

Education

  • Bring the world into the classroom over video conferencing.
  • Take students on virtual field trips to distant universities, museums, fascinating cultures, and even outer space.
  • Allow teachers and administrators to attend regional meetings without leaving their villages.

HealthCare

  • Use video conferencing to bring urban doctors and rural villages together face-to-face as if in a single examination room.
  • Relay information from telemedicine carts to remote doctors for quick reviews and diagnoses.
  • Reduce travel expenses, while increasing patient care.

Public safety

  • Provide better connectivity for first-responders.
  • Increase coverage of cell service outside of villages on new microwave towers.
  • Improve safety for subsistence hunters and travelers through expanded range of search and rescue public safety radios.

Economic development

  • Provide true broadband for residential and small business users at urban-equivalent prices.
  • Create new economic and job opportunities through network construction and operation.
  • Open access to education and training opportunities.